ARUL CHANDRAN
Mr. Arul Chandran was called to the English Bar in 1959 as a barrister-at-law of the Honourable Society of The Middle Temple, London, and then to the Singapore Bar in 1961 and he was also called to the Malaysian Bar and practiced there on occasion from 1964 to 1978. He started off his career holding several appointments in the legal service in the then Attorney-General’s Chambers and elsewhere in Singapore and was a partner at Rodyk & Davidson and later Karthigesu & Arul and lastly the sole-proprietor of C. Arul & Partners before it merged with this firm.
He is a fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (FCIArb) and a fellow and former Council member of the Singapore Institute of Arbitrators (FCIArb) and was a panel member of the Singapore International Arbitration Centre (SIAC), Singapore Chamber of Maritime Arbitration (SCMA), of the Indonesian Arbitration Centre (BANI) as well as associated with regional arbitral associations in Hong Kong, India and elsewhere and has often been appointed sole arbitrator, member of a panel or Chairman of a panel of 3 arbitrators in both Institutional and ad hoc arbitrations. He has been chairing/appeared as a guest speaker over the years at many forums, talks and seminars both locally and abroad in Asia, Africa, Europe and North America. He is founding President of the Singapore Maritime Arbitrators Association (SMAA) and founding President of the Maritime Law Association of Singapore (MLAS).
He also practices in a range of matters in dispute resolution including primarily litigation and arbitration, primarily in contract, commercial, shipping and insurance law.
He is also a past Deputy Secretary General (Asia Pacific) of the International Bar Association (IBA), past member of the Council of the Section on Business Law of the IBA, past Council member of The Law Society of Singapore and a member of many other international and regional arbitral and professional bodies. He was a board member of Mercator Lines (Singapore) Ltd, a shipping company listed on the main board of the Stock Exchange of Singapore until it went into judicial management. (Mercator is one of India’s largest listed shipping companies).